POL 2103 Lecture Notes - Cuban Missile Crisis, Warsaw Pact, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2103
• Professor: Mark Salter

Document Summary

Pol 2103 e - intro to international relations & global politics - joseph roman - 17 mar. The cold war and after: the confrontation between the usa & the ussr, the tensions ultimately shaped what came to follow. The origins of the cold war, 1945-1950: the atlantic charter, dumbarton oaks conference of 1944. Best to involve the soviets in the un security council. China (not yet communist, ally of the west) included in the sc to act as a check against the soviets: yalta conference of 1945 second involving the third world) It would be the first flare-up of the first cold war (tensions on the european continent, Determined how germany would be treated (after wwii), would be divided into allied occupation zones, britain occupies north germany, etc: the potsdam agreement of 1945. A declaration of zones of influence, dictating where are the us"s and soviet"s influence. Some areas unresolved, such as eastern europe.